Yet the Web can also be used effectively as a research tool.

I settled at a long table, my research tools spread about me.

For one thing, he answers, it could be a powerful new research tool.

But the group had at hand some exceptionally powerful research tools.

High school students and parents use the site as a research tool to explore college options.

For one thing, a computer linked to the Internet is the most powerful research tool available to students today.

And what he had seen today was a display of the finest research tools that money could buy.

He started taking photographs in 1950 as a research tool for his drawings.

In 1950, he began taking photographs as a research tool for his drawings.

"For me, the Web is a very important research tool," he said.